Azoria

Azoria is a hill in Crete near the village of Kavousi and about 3 km from the sea. It is the site of an archaic Greek city. First colonization remains date from the period around 1200 BC In the following period the place was inhabited. Around 600 BC a town was built, which was destroyed in the early fifth century by a fire. There are modest remains of a later settlement dating from about 200 BC to the excavated buildings of the archaic city is a public dining room, which is perhaps these were a Andreion. It occupies an area of about 200 m². There are benches along the walls. Part of the plant is also a small shrine, which consists of two rooms. In addition, the construction of storage rooms and three kitchens. There were Greek inscriptions on fragments and also an inscription on eteokretisch. Such inscriptions are otherwise very rare.

Since 2002, the city of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is excavated together with the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete, led by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.